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GEORGE ORWELL, DYSTOPIAN NOVEL (a bad place: dys - topos) - Coggle Diagram
GEORGE ORWELL
WORKS
1984
Animal Farm
Coming Up for Air
: novel with autobiographical episodes and warning of the tragedy of war
Down and Out:
in Paris and London: linked to the live as an outcast in Paris and London
Eric Arthur Balir, India
sent to England for study
served with the Indian Police: hate for class privilege and authority
wento to Paris → lived in poverity
went to Barcelona for the Spanish Civil War
journalist
fight alongside the Republicans
was betrayed by Socialism → life could not be changed by political formulas
worked as a journalist for the BBC and later became a literary editor for the left-wing "The Tribune"
DYSTOPIAN NOVEL (
a bad place
: dys - topos)
novelist committed to the problems of the 1930s and 1940s
about Fascism and the problem of society
future society characterised by oppression, fear and sacrifice
political control, technology, fanaticism and
dehumanisation of society
egalitarian, surpress individualism and memory of the past; religion and family → eradicated
future with weapons of mass destruction, danger of social stratification determined by biological engineering